Complete Execution History of a report

Hi,

I have some reports(both parameterized and non-parameterized) for which I need to have an execution history on the report server. These are not scheduled and so the history should only be for the instances when users view the report.

I checked the 'Store all report execution snapshots in history' but it does not store the snapshot in history everytime the report is viewed. What do I do to achieve this?

Thanks

One way is to query the ExecutionLog table in the Reporting Services Database. You will need to join to the Catalog table to retrieve the report names. The only issue here is that the ExectutionLog table is cleaned out periodically (monthly?) so you will only get the last month's worth of executions.

I have copies of the ExecutionLog and Catalog table created in another database and run a job to update them every few minutes. I run a Reporting Statisitcs report off these tables.

regards

Ray

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You may also want to read this RS 2005 technical article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/RSMnRptExPf.asp

-- Robert

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Hi Robert,

Thanks for your the link. However, I do not need the detailed execution statistics provided by the solution. I simply want the report snapshot to be stored in history whenever a report is viewed/run. This behaviour is by default in Crystal Enterprise 10 and I thought it would be reasonably simple in Reporting Services as well. Is the answer no ?

Thanks again,

Hemil.

|||SSRS supports automatically creating history snapshots for reports which are set to execute from a snapshot. Each time the snapshot is updated, it will be added to report history. That said, we do not support automatically creating history for every single live execution. I am not certain how useful that would be...|||

Considering this sceranio...there are three users of the same 'roles' who can access the same report. At any time whoever generates the report the first time. It will be kept in the history folder. When the rest of the users checks on the history they know who's has generated the report and that they themselve need not generate the reports ( since someone has done). I guess in this situation...it would be useful to describe why he needs that facility?

Regards

Alu